1)I hope that it doesn't spread in Lagos. Hopefully it will remain contained

2) You should fear drug resistant TB and MERSA over Ebola

3) The flu has killed more people than Ebola

Here's more info on Nigerian Patient Zero

http://allafrica.com/stories/201408071299.html

http://allafrica.com/stories/201407310920.html

FrontPageAfrica has now learned that upon being told he had Ebola, Mr. Sawyer went into a rage, denying and objecting to the opinion of the medical experts. "He was so adamant and difficult that he took the tubes from his body and took off his pants and urinated on the health workers, forcing them to flee.

The hospital would later report that it resisted immense pressure to let out Sawyer from its hospital against the insistence from some higher-ups and conference organizers that he had a key role to play at the ECOWAS convention in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. In fact, FrontPageAfrica has been informed that officials in Monrovia were in negotiations with ECOWAS to have Sawyer flown back to Liberia.

A text message in possession of FrontPageAfrica from the ECOWAS Ambassador in Liberia, responding to a senior GoL official reads: Your Excellency, the disease control department of the Federal Ministry of Health just contacted me through the hospital now, insisting that Mr. Sawyer be evacuated for now. Pls advise urgently."

per CNN...a foreign white doctor in Sierra Leone claimed they were saving a lot of people...is it through medicine or were their bodies just able to withstand the virus? he said if they showed up to the hospital immediately after symptoms began there was a decent chance of living...i was kinda confused because he didn't say what method they were using.

American dies in Liberia as Ebola outbreak closes borders - BUT HE DID NOT HAVE EBOLA

A young American man died Wednesday in Liberia, where an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has reached historic levels. But, his family said, it wasn't the disease that took his life.

Nathaniel
Dennis from Columbia, Maryland died at Aspen Medical in Sinkor, Liberia
after spending a week in a coma. His death followed a frantic battle by
his family to evacuate the 24-year-old to better equipped medical
facilities outside of Liberia, a task that proved impossible amid the
region's Ebola outbreak even after he tested negative for the deadly disease.

"This could have been prevented and now an American citizen is gone," his older sister Natasha Dennis tweeted Wednesday, adding in a separate post, "My brother did NOT have Ebola but he was a victim of EBOLA HYSTERIA."

Nathaniel Dennis and his sister Natasha

Courtesy of Natasha Dennis

In
an interview with CBS News, Natasha said she and her family still don't
know why her brother fell ill. Their mother, a Liberian who left the
country during its civil wars but later returned, found Nathaniel
comatose in their home in Monrovia. Born in the U.S., Nathaniel had been
visiting his mother with his siblings on a summer trip, but had decided
to stay after he found a job at a local radio station. When his mother
found him late last week, Natasha said, he was lying stiff with his eyes
rolled back, still breathing. Objects in his room had been knocked
over, leading his family to believe he had suffered seizures before
falling into a coma.

With concerns about Ebola
rising, Nathaniel was placed in quarantine at JFK Medical Center in
Monrovia. After what his sister described as three critical days, he
tested negative for the virus and was released from quarantine, but his
condition had taken a turn for the worse. He needed equipment and
expertise his family said were inaccessible at the hospital, like a
ventilator and a dialysis machine.

According to his family,
Dennis was born three months premature and required a shunt in his
brain, and while it is not yet clear whether that contributed to his
condition, his family wanted to get him to a qualified neurologist -
care Natasha said they felt he couldn't get in a country still
rebuilding from war.

He needed to get out of Liberia, but in the face of what the country's government has called the "deadly Ebola menace,"
nearly all of Liberia's borders were sealed. His family hired a medical
evacuation provider to get him to a hospital in Ghana, but Natasha said
they were soon informed this wouldn't be possible, because the Ghanaian
government wouldn't allow him to land in the country.

Nathaniel
Dennis had traveled to Liberia to visit his mother with his siblings,
and decided to stay after getting a job at a local radio station

Courtesy of Natasha Dennis

The
family reached out to the U.S. embassy in Liberia, she said, but they
were unable to help. CBS News has reached out to the State Department
for comment and is waiting to hear back.

"No one tried to help us
because everyone was too afraid," Natasha said in an interview with CBS
News. "When we travel, we have confidence as American citizens. This
experience has taken that confidence away for me."

It was a
tragedy of timing, said Amar Safdar at NYU Langone Medical Center's
division of infectious diseases and immunology, where a young man had
symptoms that might resemble an Ebola infection in the "epicenter of the
outbreak." Sealed borders and quarantines, Safdar said, are necessary
containment strategies during epidemics, that can have terrible
unintended consequences.

On Thursday, U.S. health officials issued travel warnings to
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, three countries where the outbreak has
killed more than 700 people this year.

Back in the U.S. before Nathaniel's passing, Natasha continued fighting to get her brother help. She fired off tweets at U.S. politicians, media organizations and charities with the hashtag #BringBackNat. The Dennis family set up a fundraising page
on the site GoFundMe in an attempt to secure his evacuation and provide
him with the necessary treatment. They continue to raise money, even
after his passing. As of Thursday, 186 people had donated over $11,000.

That
money, Natasha said, will be used to bring Nathaniel's body back home
to the U.S., where she hopes they will be able to find an answer to why
he died so young.

Nathaniel was passionate about music, his faith
and Liberia. "He was the most positive person I know. He was
definitely, besides my mother, the closest person to God." Natasha said.
"He could make friends with anyone."

She and her brother Norwood hope to also use funds to start a foundation to help Liberia.

Makes me so sad . This young man could've survived. He was alive the whole time his family was trying to get him help, but couldn't get access to proper care.

New Mexico woman, other patient in Calif. both being tested for Ebola virus

The
30-year-old New Mexico woman is currently in isolation as a precaution
at the University of New Mexico Hospital after experiencing symptoms
similar to the virus which has killed more than 1,200 people overseas as
of Tuesday, according to health officials. The woman recently returned
from Sierra Leone. In Sacramento, Calif., a patient 'who may have been
exposed' to Ebola is under observation, officials there said.

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30-year-old New Mexico woman is in isolation at the University of New
Mexico Hospital, pictured, after recently returning from Africa and
experiencing symptoms similar to the Ebola virus.

A New Mexico woman is being tested for the Ebola virus in Albuquerque
after recently returning from Africa, according to state health
officials.

And in Sacramento, Calif. hospital officials say a patient “who may
have been exposed to the Ebola virus” is also in isolation as blood
samples are tested to rule out the virus.

The 30-year-old woman is in isolation as a precaution at the University
of New Mexico Hospital after experiencing symptoms similar to the virus
that has killed more than 1,200 people overseas as of Tuesday,
according to health officials.

The woman from Bernalillo County has had no known exposure to the
disease but had been teaching in Sierra Leone, one of several African
countries with known cases of Ebola, according to the state's health
department.

They said blood work was sent to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention in Atlanta where it will be tested for the virus. They expect
to have the results back by the end of the week.

"The Department of Health is working closely with UNM Hospital and the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on this investigation," said
Department of Health Cabinet Secretary Retta Ward, MPH. "UNM Hospital
has isolated the patient, and is following the appropriate protocols to
ensure other patients and health care workers are safe."

APAs
of Tuesday the death toll from the virus, pictured, has surpassed 1,200
overseas, according to the World Health Organization. The majority of
the deaths have been in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

The unidentified patient returned to the U.S. earlier this month before
complaining of a sore throat, headache, muscle aches and fever.

Those symptoms are usually followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash and in
some cases, bleeding if in fact infected with the virus. A person
infected usually does not have symptoms from two to 21 days, according
to the World Health Organization.

Less is known about the California patient, who is, being treated at the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center.

“In order to protect our patients, staff and physicians, even though
infection with the virus is unconfirmed, we are taking the actions
recommended by the CDC as a precaution, just as we do for other patients
with a suspected infectious disease,” the medical center said in a
statement. “This includes isolation of the patient in a specially
equipped negative pressure room and the use of personal protective
equipment by trained staff, coordinated with infectious disease
specialists.”

As of this week there are no known Ebola cases in the U.S. other than
two U.S. health workers who were evacuated from Liberia earlier this
month.

lawd....if this happens at the hospital i work out I WILL DEFINITELY HAVE NO PROBLEMS WALKING OUT AND STAYING OUT....DON;T CALL ME, DRIVE TO MY HOUSE ...lawd white folks they think they have Jesus's Immune system or something....

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